Cool,
Banksters and private interest groups have taken over Bitcoin
Hopefully, if there are any independent node runners left, they'll stop running them in protest
and now miners can't afford to keep mining on low BTC prices, so hopefully they'll give up on sha-256, or go with another coin.
Result? Banksters, regulators and private interests will have handicapped BTC to the point where they won't be able to call it decentralized by any definition, and certainly not private.
Here comes DASH to the rescue!
I respectfully disagree with this view on Bitcoin. Bitcoin is doing the hardest thing, which is bringing legitimacy to crypto currency. They are facing government and regulators, explaining the technology and so far being successful in making it legal. The government could have as easily made Bitcoin illegal, but thanks to BTC lobbying they did not, actually declared it property, defined taxation regulation, etc. These are really good things for all crypto specially at this phase.
Crypto does not have a complete economy yet, where salaries are paid in crypto, suppliers are paid in crypto, and that will still take a long time. In the meantime, entry and exit points into FIAT are crucial for the system to work. Just ask yourself if there were no FIAT to Crypto exchanges what value would crypto have? And FIAT entry and exit points can not function outside of regulation. In my opinion is easy to criticize Crypto start-ups for working with regulation, but they are running a business and legal security is crucial for the continuity of the business.
In my opinion, crypto can make a big difference, while complying with regulation, by creating a more competitive environment for traditional banking services, remittances, etc. Force them to offer a better service and lower fees through competition. That is what you should expect from crypto start ups, the better fungibility needs to come from the protocol itself.
That is why I see the stronger fungibility of Dash as a very important advantage, even if Dash businesses are complying with KYC/AML and other regulations, you still have denominated digital cash so you have to work around that, it makes for a stronger system. You can create controls by amounts or other ways just like you do with physical cash but you can't change its nature as digital cash.
I don't think is reasonable for a crypto currency like Bitcoin after it reaches a certain size to operate completely outside of the law, that is Utopian in my opinion. Also as a market develops there will always be private interests and bigger players, it is a market after all. I think the real question would be: is Bitcoin reaching more people? Is it providing better alternatives for users than traditional systems?